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Meinhard's Mission in Livonia

Type Event Region Northern Europe Time 1184–1196

Augustinian monk Meinhard arrived in Livonia with Lübeck merchants around the late 1170s or early 1180s, built a stone church at Üxküll (now Ikšķile,…

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  1. c. 1180–1184Üxküll · LatviaMeinhard set out from Segeberg, traveled with merchants to Livonian territory, and settled at present-day Ikšķile. In 1184 he built the Stone Church of the Virgin, one of the earliest known stone churches on the eastern Baltic coast. The old coordinates (approx. 57.37, 21.56) fell on the Couronian coast and have been corrected.
  2. 1186–1196Üxküll · LatviaIn 1186 Meinhard briefly returned to Germany and was consecrated by Archbishop Hartwig of Bremen as the first bishop of Üxküll (Livonia); confirmed by the pope in September 1188. His successors were Berthold and Albert, and the see moved to Riga in 1201. Meinhard died in 1196.

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